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Recipe Lab Video Chat With Deborah Madison

By The New York Times April 16, 2013 7:00 amApril 16, 2013 7:00 am

Today we sat down with the author Deborah Madison to discuss her new cookbook, “Vegetable Literacy,” as part of Recipe Lab, a monthly feature in which you, our readers, are invited to cook with us. A replay of their discussion, featuring Julia Moskin of the Times and three home cooks, is above.

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Credit Raef Byers

We selected three Times readers to participate via Google+ Hangout. They discussed the recipes we selected from the book — a fragrant onion tart and asparagus with salsa verde and scarlet onions — with Ms. Moskin and Ms. Madison.

If you cooked one or both of the dishes, how did they turn out? Feel free to post comments below. Ms. Moskin’s notes on both recipes are here.

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Credit Laura Enoch

Our three home cooks were:

Raef Byers, 37, Cypress, Tex.

Mr. Byers, who cooks with plants and herbs grown in his apartment, is new to Ms. Madison’s cookbooks. He significantly reduced his meat consumption after reading Mark Bittman’s views on eating meat.

Jill Bergeron, 35, Pasadena, Calif.

Ms. Bergeron, a vegetarian, said the book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life” by Barbara Kingsolver transformed her way of thinking about cooking high-quality vegetarian meals.

Laura Enoch, 29, Brooklyn

Ms. Enoch enthusiastically shops the Union Square Greenmarket for local produce. She experiments with recipes, altering them to accommodate people with food allergies. She used gluten-free oat flour to make the crust for the onion tart.